Improvement in refrigerators



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Improvement in Refrigerators. N0. 125,323. Patented April,2,1872.

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P. N'UNAN. Improvement in Refrigerators.

Patented April 2,1872.

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lmprovement in Refrigerators. No. 125,323. PatentedApril2,1872.

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PHILIP NUNAN, OF SANDUSKY, OHIO.

IMPROVEMENT IN'REFRIGERATORS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 125,323, dated April 2, 1872.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, PHILIP NUNAN, of Sandusky, in the county of Erie and in the State of Ohio, have invented certain new and useful ful Improvements in Combined Refrigerator, \Vine and Beer-Cooler, and Water-Filter; and do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description thereof, reference being had to the accompanying drawing and to the letters of reference marked thereon making a part of this specification.

The nature of my invention consists in the construction and arrangement of a refrigerator for the use of brewers and others, including a wine and beer cooler and water-filter, as will be hereinafter more fully set forth.

In order to enable others skilled in the art to which my invention appertains to make and use the same, I will now proceed to describe its construction and operation, referring to the annexed drawing, in which- Figure l is a perspective view Fig. 2, a longitudinal vertical section and Fig. 3, a horizontal section of my improved refrigerator.

The outside shell of my refrigerator consisting of the bottom A, sides B B, and top 0, all built together so as to form a whole. The bottom A is made double, as shown in Fig. 2, and the space filled with charcoal or other suitable non-conductin g material. The sides B B as well as the top 0 are each made with two double walls, forming a central dead-air chamber, a, on both sides of which is a double wall filled with charcoal or other suitable non-conducting material. In the top 0 are two doors, D D, through which the ice is inserted and placed in the two ice-receivers E E. These receivers are enlarged at their lower ends and provided each with an interior casing, G, in which the beer keg or barrel H is placed. The space around each casin g G is filled with charcoal or other suitable filtering material, so that the water from the ice melting above in the icereceivers will pass through said filtering material, and from the bottom of the receivers through pipes b I) and be drawn out through the central faucet I. Between the two ice-receivers E E is placed a receptacle, J, for pure water, which receptacle has a suitable filter, so that the water may be filtered, and the wabeer until wanted for use.

ter passes through a pipe, I), at the bottom of the. receptacle or cooler J, and out through the faucet I. Each of the pipes 11 b and b is provided with a stop-cock, d, so that the water may be drawn through the faucet I from either one of the three sources separate or all together, as may be desired. In the bottom of each of the casings G is a track, K, with concave rollers e 6, upon which the beer-barrel H rests, and can readily be moved out and in, a faucet, 1, extending from each barrel out through a door, L, in the front of the refrigerator. This faucet passes through the lower edge of said door, the door being hinged at the upper edge, and around the faucet is rubber packing t, as shown in Fig. 1. The interior of the refrigerator around and below the ice-receivers E E is divided into three rows of shelves with appropriate doors on the front. The closets L in the upper row are for any purpose that may be desired. The closets L one on each side of the doors L L, are intended to be chiefly used for wines and liquors, and the lower compartment L to keep casks of The interior of the refrigerator is further so arranged that warm air entering at any of the doors, when open, passes through apertures f f on the back and sides into the first charcoal spaces and out through tubes 'h h at the top. is is the opening for the admission of water into the watercooler J. The edges of the doors to the various closets are segments of circles, so that whlen closed theywvill be comparatively airtig t.

If this refrigerator should be used. for a private family, all the alteration necessary is to omit the places for the faucets I I.

Having thus fully described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

l. A shell for a refrigerator, in which the chamber a, and a space on each side of said chamber filled with similar non-conducting material, substantially as herein set forth.

2. The combination of the ice-receivers E E,

provided with interior casings G G, the spaces around said casings being packed with a filtering material, cooler J, pipes b b and b, stopeocks d d, and faucet I, all substantially as and for the purposes -herein set forth.

3. The combination of the shell A B 0, top doors D D, ice-receivers E E, casings G G, doors L L, faucets I l, cooler J, closets L L L and air-passugefh,a1l constructed and arranged substantially as and for the purposes herein set forth.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing I have hereunto set my hand this 17th day of February, 1872.

V PHILIP NUNAN. YVitnesses:

A. N. MARE, G. L. EVERT. 

